All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1930 item #1457249
An old ink drawing of Carmel Mission in Central California, signed at lower left C Walker, or C F Walker, and dated there 1925. Measurements 4 1/2" by 3 3/4" (10 3/4" by 9 1/4" in pleasing, old, likely-original frame)...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1930 item #1457106
An original drawing on paper of couples sitting at tables in a formal garden patio setting, attended to by a waiter, signed at lower left margin by the well-listed California artist CLARK HOBART (1868-1948). The sheet, unframed and currently in a protective plastic sleeve, measures 10" by 8 1/2". Hobart was born in Rockford, Illinois. He was in California as a child, then studied at the San Francisco School of Design under Stanton and Giuseppe Cadenasso and also privately with William Keith...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1442621 (stock #991)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,000.00
Arthur Beecher Carles American Master Artist ,Abstract Drawing 8x6”, graphite on paper. was introduced by Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 Gallery and along with John Marin,Arthur Dove and others were the earliest modernist artist in the United States.Biography[edit] Carles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1900 and 1907...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1461403 (stock #2598)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
Russian born artist who worked for the WPA, and in 1939 was commissioned for a mural for the department of Justice in Washington DC. His work and papers are at Yale University and some of his works are in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This work is graphite on paper, in a silver deco frame that measures 18x29 inches…....
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1419257 (stock #JB03306)
Crayon drawing on paper of the picturesque old historic mission San Carlos Borromeo at Carmel, California, (dating to the year 1771), so identified, signed and dated 1938 at lower right, by the noted Tacoma, Washington architect SILAS E. NELSEN (1894-1987). The work, 11 1/2" by 8 1/2" and 15" by 12" framed, shows the facade of the popular mission...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1296988 (stock #TDB00173)
A nice watercolor portrait of a young man, probably in his mid-teens, signed, “Elinor M. Barnard/1933.” The young man with brown hair and eyes wearing an open necked white shirt leans into the picture plane with a sense of youthful eagerness. Elinor Barnard (1872-1942) was born and studied in the UK, but worked mostly in the USA, principally New York City. She has a relaxed and economical style. Sight size 16 3/8 by 12 ¼ inches. Overall with frame, 23 ¾ by 19 3/8 inches...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1454359 (stock #587)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,200.00
This work graphite on paper is signed and dated 1933….Clyde Singer was born in the small town of Malvern in 1908 and grew up in the rural hills of Ohio. Educated in the local public schools, he had an early interest in art and, after high school, attended the school at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. In 1933 he received a scholarship to the Arts Students’ League in New York City where his mentors were “American Scene” painters John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1442107 (stock #345)
1936 Framed Lithograph by Boyer, signed in pencil "sous il eclus", Sight Size 9 x 7", Frame Size 15 x 12".
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1417467 (stock #JB04319)
ONE OF TWO DRAWINGS BY THE ARTIST IN MY SHOP---A pencil drawing of the Hell Gate railroad bridge in New York City, (so identified after research conducted on the internet), 8 7/8" by 6 3/4" (14 1/2" by 11 1/2" framed, no glass, loose in black metal frame), signed with initials "JRM" at lower left and dated there 1943. On the reverse a previous owner wrote "JOHN RICHARD MOORE 1925-2009 University High Sch arts class Co Founder Panavision Co.". This early work would date to the artist's teens...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1940 item #1465478 (stock #2829)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
INDIAN/PERSIAN SCHOOL , 19TH CENTURY, TWO FRAMED MANUSCRIPTS, 9 X 5 1/4 In. Frame: 12 1/2 X 9 In.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1416224 (stock #JB0462)
Chalk and charcoal drawing on brown paper, 23 3/4" by 17 3/4", unsigned, in old frame on which is written "ADELE WATSON Ex. Coll. Pasadena Art Inst.". This is a skillfully executed portrait of a seated young woman. There is a bit of red color in the pot at her feet, in the collar area, and in her face, to go along with the white and black chalk...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1940 item #1416466 (stock #JB01685)
**PAIR** of framed original drawings in charcoal, with some color as well, the larger 22" by 14 1/2" inside the mat, the smaller 17 1/4" by 12 1/2" inside the mat, both signed (the smaller one signed twice), by the well listed, important Art Deco artist and sculptor BORIS LOVET-LORSKI (1894-1973). I would prefer to sell these as a pair but will consider selling them individually...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1940 item #1442033 (stock #392)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,000.00
Elizabeth Shippen Green artist , Original Charcoal Drawing on paper 24 x 14, frame size 37 x 27 story illustration Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1280750 (stock #2672)
King Art
$8,000.00
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, 1890 – 1941, better known as El Lissitzky was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian Avant Garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1940 item #1416323 (stock #JB03730)
Ink drawing with some pencil outlining visible, subject an idyllic northern lake bordered by tall spruce or pines, a ti-pi with Indian at center left, a canoe plying the waters at center distance, signed at lower left "Leb-Wendell", 7" by 9 3/4", 12 1/2" by 15" as framed. At first I though this an etching but close up inspection reveals it to be actually an ink drawing with fine detail. One can see the pencil outlining and guide lines placed by the artist. I do not see a listing for this name...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1422220 (stock #JB05186)
A large (27 1/2" by 40", unframed) oil pastel on paper drawing, circa 1930's to about 1940, the imagery including two Native American-looking female figures washing clothes in a stream as a child looks on, a deer and her newborn fawn, and stylized flowers, butterfly and trees, all in a composition that combines the Southwest and the Art Deco period. The work is unsigned, making it therefore difficult to determine who the artist may have been, though that artist may well have been known/listed-...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Marker : Pre 1940 item #1453787 (stock #1682)
Hey beautiful done drawing of a young boy done in 1940 work signed Gottlieb 20x14”
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1416241 (stock #JB0695)
This pencil/watercolor drawing on heavy paper, 34 1/2" by 24 1/2" is actually signed by the artist, one "Sil Marraccini" at lower right and is dated 2/11/39. Originally intended as architectural plans, it would today easily qualify as a late Deco/early mid century art work on its own accord. I believe I acquired this in the San Francisco area, where Bank of America began. No doubt this was a plan for the interior details and exterior elevation of a branch of the bank. This has been rolled fo...